Numbers for today:

Temperature inside the house when I woke: 55 degrees.
Hours it took me to get it to 60: 2 1/2
Hours spent waiting for repair guy AGAIN: 4
Dollars spent buying newer (energy efficient) space heaters: 40

Hours spent deveining and shelling shrimp: 3
Times Mom was told to get out of the way: 4
Blistered burns because Mom didn’t move in time: 1
Hours spent at the dinner table: 1/2

Diapers changed: 12
Loads of laundry washed/dried: 4
Loads of dishes: 3
Times the girls were told “You ain’t goin nowhere, nowhere. You ain’t goin nowhere, HEY!” (cheer from last year): 5
Times they tried to sneak out anyway: 3

I’m whupped. But it was a good day

On this day..

• The book report I want to write: - 2006
• No furnace - day 20million - 2004